NZZ media group

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NZZ media group

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legal form Aktiengesellschaft
(public limited company for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
founding 1991
Seat Zurich , Switzerland
management Etienne Jornod , Chairman of the Board of Directors,
Felix Graf, CEO
Number of employees 942 employees
Website www.nzzmediengruppe.ch

The NZZ media group is a Swiss media company. The group is divided into the business areas NZZ Medien and Business Medien (events and information services). The main purpose of the group is to publish the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and other media.

The business NZZ regional media was in one on October 1, 2018 joint venture with the AZ Medien , CH Media transferred involving the two companies in half.

history

The group was formed in 1991 with a majority stake in the St. Galler Tagblatt , and in 2002 the participation in LZ Medien AG (today RMH Regionalmedien AG ), the publisher of the Luzerner Zeitung , was made through FPH Freie Presse Holding, which is majority owned by the NZZ media group . This was completely taken over in 2014 through the purchase of the shares in PubliGroupe . The NZZ media group holds numerous other investments.

Competitive situation with Tamedia

While the NZZ media group won the battle with the other major Zurich publisher, Tamedia , for journalistic supremacy in the German-speaking regions with the takeover of the Neue Luzerner Zeitung (since 2016: Luzerner Zeitung ) in central Switzerland , it succeeded in the same in Bern with the takeover of Espace Medien ( Berner Zeitung , Der Bund ) and in the canton of Zurich, where it took over shares in the Zürcher Landzeitungen ( Zürichsee-Zeitung , Zürcher Oberländer , Zürcher Unterländer ) from the NZZ media group (Tamedia also owns a 20- % Stake in the Winterthurer Landbote ). In return, Tamedia ceded the Thurgauer Zeitung to the NZZ media group, which established its dominance in Eastern Switzerland, where it already owned the St. Galler Tagblatt .

Former holdings

  • In 1984 the NZZ media group took a 40% stake in the Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich . In 2007 it sold 25% and in 2017 the remaining 15% to Tamedia .
  • Prisma Medienservice AG was sold to Direct Mail Company AG in 2013 .
  • In addition to the publisher's own products, the NZZ printing company NZZ Print also printed products for customers. The print shop was closed at the end of June 2015. Since then, the NZZ has been printed by Tamedia.
  • Together with the Hirslanden Clinic and the Swiss Health Promotion Foundation , the NZZ media group operated the online health portal eBalance.ch . At the end of 2016, she sold it to the Berlin agency group Thesis digital.
  • As the first product outside of Switzerland, the NZZ media group started operating NZZ Austria in January 2015 , which was run exclusively as a paid online offer. The online portal, with its own editorial team and permanent journalists, was a field test to establish paid online offers. The editor-in-chief of NZZ.at was the Austrian journalist Michael Fleischhacker . The portal was discontinued at the end of April 2017.

Joint venture CH Media with AZ Medien

On October 1, 2018, the NZZ media group and AZ Medien brought their regional newspapers and radio and TV stations into a joint venture called CH Media , which both groups share equally. The NZZ media group contributed its entire regional media business with the St. Galler Tagblatt , Luzerner Zeitung and radio and TV stations, as well as individual specialist media such as the Swiss music newspaper . The NZZ Medien and Business Medien divisions of the NZZ media group are not part of the merger, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the NZZ am Sonntag . AZ Medien transferred all areas - print, radio, TV, online - with the exception of the online newspaper Watson ; As a start-up company, this still needs entrepreneurial freedom, but later involvement is conceivable. AZ Medien magazines were also introduced into the network . The printing works as well as all employees and managers in the aforementioned areas of both media groups were also transferred to the new company.

newspapers and magazines

After the transfer of the regional media St. Galler Tagblatt and Luzerner Zeitung with all their regional editions and headers, the NZZ media group now includes:

  • Anzeiger St. Gallen , East Swiss weekly newspaper
  • Die neue Schulpraxis , Swiss school magazine
  • Smash , Swiss tennis magazine
  • Pack aktuell , Swiss packaging magazine
  • eLFORUM , trade journal for electronics and electrical engineering
  • Schweizer Optiker , industry magazine Schweizerischer Optikerverband
  • Schweizer Soldat , specialist journal on military and security events
  • Textil-Revue , the Swiss specialist magazine for the textile industry
  • Persorama , industry magazine for human resources
  • viscom print + communication , industry magazine in Switzerland for visual communication with a focus on print

criticism

In 2020, the publisher and the NZZ newspaper were criticized for distributing high dividends to shareholders in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland , drawing on government aid and breaking off advertisements.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the NZZ media group ( Memento from September 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the NZZ media group.
  2. ↑ Alain Brunner: NZZ takes over LZ Medien Holding 100%. In: Zentralplus. May 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ NZZ media group. Holdings. NZZ media group.
  4. ↑ NZZ joins the Neue Luzerner Zeitung. In : wirtschaft.ch. April 25, 2002.
  5. ↑ Lukas Hässig : Charlie's angels come from Zurich. 2007.
  6. ↑ Martin Gollmer: Tamedia conquered the Zurich newspaper market. April 16, 2010.
  7. ↑ Tamedia 2006 with strong growth. Changes after the balance sheet date ( memento of August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Tamedia, March 27, 2007, p. 2 (press release, PDF; 58 kB).
  8. ↑ Lokalinfo takes over another 15 percent of the daily newspaper of the city of Zurich. Tamedia , June 19, 2017 (press release).
  9. ↑ Direct Mail Company AG buys Prisma Medienservice AG. In: post.ch. September 30, 2013, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  10. ↑ NZZ media group sells eBalance . NZZ media group. November 2, 2016 (press release), accessed December 17, 2017
  11. ↑ NZZ.at is aiming for 10,000 subscriptions in the first year. In: derStandard.at . January 22, 2015.
  12. ↑ NZZ.at is discontinued. NZZ media group. April 19, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  13. ↑ New media company has started. In: persoenlich.com. 1st October 2018.
  14. ↑ "NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG": A question of credibility In: FAZ.net . May 3, 2020.